فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًۭا يَرَهُۥ
How to read it
Faman yaʻ'mal' mith'qāla dharratin khay'ran yarahu
Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًۭا يَرَهُۥ
Faman yaʻ'mal' mith'qāla dharratin khay'ran yarahu
Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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This ayah tells us that even the tiniest good deed counts, and nothing we do is ever lost.
Start with bismillah.
Sprinkle a few mustard seeds or grains of salt on dark paper. Ask: "What is the tiniest thing you can see? Do you think there are things even smaller?"
Watch the video about how small the tiny building blocks of everything are. Scientists call them atoms. How small did you think they were before?
Now listen to the ayah together in the app, with the translation. Ask: "What is this ayah telling us about small things?"
Each child keeps one wonder question, for example: "Can something so tiny really matter?" Younger children can draw theirs.
Find it in the mushaf: Surah Az-Zalzalah is surah 99, near the very end of the Quran. Find ayah 7. How many ayat does the surah have?
Fact: What are the smallest living things, and how do scientists see them?
Ages 5–8: Tiny-good-deeds jar. Each time you do a small good deed this week, drop one bean or button into a jar. Watch it fill up.
Ages 9–12: Weigh the tiny. Count 100 grains of rice and weigh them on a kitchen scale. Work out how heavy ONE grain is. Can the scale show one grain on its own? What does that tell you?
Finish with: "I found that one grain of rice weighs about ___, and my jar has ___ good deeds in it."

Talk together:
Make a small plan: "Each day this week, I will do one tiny good deed at ___ for ___."
Action: Practise your plan and add to your jar every day.

Keep beans, seeds and buttons away from toddlers (choking risk).